Actor
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
14 films•1 as director•1999–2020•Drama · Action · Comedy
76%average critics76%average audience$96.0Mdomestic average
Films
14
1999–2020
Domestic
$1.34B
lifetime
Worldwide
$3.03B
lifetime
Avg opening
$26.7M
3-day
Avg legs
3.78x
opening → total
Return
3.0x
on $994.0M of budget
Box Office Watch tracks 14 films credited to Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 1 as director and 14 in the cast, from 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) to The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020), together grossing $1.34B domestic and $3.03B worldwide. The biggest hit is The Dark Knight Rises (2012) at $1.08B worldwide, which also had the biggest opening weekend, $161.0M.
Filmography
| Film | Year | Opening | Domestic | Legs | Worldwide | CinemaScore | RT | Yearly rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 The Trial of the Chicago 7 | 2020 | — | — | — | $0.1M | — | 89% | — |
 Snowden | 2016 | $8.0M | $21.6M | 2.70x | $35.4M | — | 61% | — |
 Sin City: A Dame to Kill For | 2014 | $6.3M | $13.8M | 2.20x | $40.7M | — | 43% | — |
 Don Jon | 2013 | $8.7M | $24.5M | 2.80x | $41.3M | — | 80% | — |
 Lincoln | 2012 | $21.0M | $182.0M | 8.66x | $275.0M | A | 89% | #13 |
 Looper | 2012 | $20.8M | $66.5M | 3.20x | $177.0M | B | 93% | #44 |
 The Dark Knight Rises | 2012 | $161.0M | $448.0M | 2.79x | $1.08B | A | 87% | #2 |
 50/50 | 2011 | $8.6M | $35.0M | 4.10x | $41.3M | — | 93% | — |
 Inception | 2010 | $62.8M | $293.0M | 4.66x | $828.0M | B+ | 87% | #6 |
 (500) Days of Summer | 2009 | $835K | $32.4M | 38.9x | $34.5M | — | 86% | — |
 G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra | 2009 | $54.7M | $150.0M | 2.75x | $302.0M | B+ | 33% | #18 |
 Mysterious Skin | 2004 | $17K | $713K | 40.9x | $2.1M | — | 86% | — |
 Treasure Planet | 2002 | $12.1M | $38.2M | 3.16x | $110.0M | A- | 68% | — |
 10 Things I Hate About You | 1999 | $8.3M | $38.2M | 4.60x | $60.4M | — | 72% | — |
Click any column to sort. Yearly rank is the film’s place on its release year’s domestic chart; a film outside that year’s top 50 shows a dash.
Film by film
DomesticInternationalColumn height is worldwide · one film every 1.6 years
Profitability
Return on Budget
3.0x
$3.03B worldwide on $994.0M of production budget
Theatrical breakeven point is approx. 2.5x production budget
Domestic vs International Split
Domestic $1.34BInternational $1.68B
Return by film · worldwide ÷ budget
0x2.5x breakeven7.5x
Budgets are reported production costs and exclude marketing, so this is a gross-to-budget ratio rather than studio profit. Films with no reported budget are left out of this section entirely, including from the totals, rather than counted as zero.
Records held
All records →#17Best multipliersInception4.66x#19Biggest PG-13 openingsThe Dark Knight Rises$160.9M#20All-time PG-13 domesticThe Dark Knight Rises$448.1M#24Biggest opening weekendsThe Dark Knight Rises$160.9M
Top 4 of 6 placings across 6 all-time charts. Where a film places on the same chart in consecutive weekends, only its best placing is shown.
What’s next
Full schedule →No upcoming movies announced yet.
Connected
Counted from this filmography. The number is how many of these films each one accounts for.
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